PARASITIC WASPS OF BRACONID SUBFAMILY EUPHORINAE 309 
typical species appears to be an aphidiine and probably a species of 
Aphidius. 'The description, which is rather detailed, fits Aphidius 
exactly while it disagrees in important respects with the Euphorinae. 
The completely closed first brachial cell (second discoidal cell of 
Cameron’s description) alone will exclude it from that subfamily. 
COSMOPHORUS Ratzeburg 
Cosmophorus Ratzeburg, Die Ichneumonen der Forstinsecten .. ., v. 2, p. 72, 
1848. (Genotype, Cosmophorus klugit Ratzeburg.) 
In his original description Ratzeburg indicated that, apart from the 
shape of the radial cell, the confluence of the first discoidal cell with 
the first cubital, and the absence of the second intercubitus, Cosmo- 
phorus has nothing in common with the groups on which the present 
Euphorinae are based. Nevertheless, workers in the Braconidae, 
since the publication of Foerster’s classification in 1862, have con- 
sistently referred the genus to that subfamily. The present writer 
does not agree with this treatment, however. In the impressed 
clypeus, the large opening between the clypeus and the mandibles, 
the small, nonprominent eyes, the 4-segmented maxillary palpus and 
1-segmented labial palpus, the interstitial subdiscoideus, the subsessile 
or sessile first abdominal segment, the position of the spiracles of the 
first tergite, which are near the base, and finally the immargined 
prepectus, Cosmophorus disagrees with essential characters of the 
Euphorinae. It will not run to that group in any existing key to the 
subfamilies of the Braconidae, and it obviously does not belong there. 
It is not clear that Cosmophorus belongs properly in any of the 
recognized subfamilies of Braconidae, but tentatively 1t seems best 
referred to the Pambolinae. 
NEARCTIC SPECIES WRONGLY CLASSIFIED AS EUPHORINAE 
Examination of the types makes necessary the transfer to other 
groups of Braconidae the following specific names which were originally 
assigned to euphorine genera. The types of the four species described 
by Provancher are in the Provincial Museum at Quebec, Canada, 
while that of the species described by Cresson is in the Academy of 
Sciences at Philadelphia. 
SPATHIUS FASCIATUS (Provancher), new combination 
Rhopalophorus fasciatus Provancher, Additions et Corrections au Volume ITI de 
la Faune Entomologique du Canada traitant des Hyménopteres, 1886, 
p. 129. 
IDIASTA LONGICORNIS (Provancher), new combination 
Rhopalophorus longicornis Provancher, 1885, p. 129. 
ASPILOTA PETIOLATUS (Provancher), new combination 
Rhopalophorus petiolatus Provancher, 1886, p. 128. 
BRACHYSTROPHA LINEARIS (Provancher), new combination 
Microctonus linearis Provancher, 1886, p. 127. 
Dinocampus linearis Provancher, Additions et Corrections au Volume II de la 
Faune Entomologique du Canada traitant des Hyménoptéres, 1888, p. 378. 
SYRRHIZUS AGILIS (Cresson), new combination 
Microctonus agilis Cresson, Canad. Ent. 4: 226, 1872. 
